Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-01-01
Written for The DAILY MINER,-
AMINISTER,S WOOING.
BY MATT. W.

. AMINISTER'S WOOING.
BY MATT. W.
There are no doubt many persons i
Montana who have Travelled over a road i
southern Ohio leading north from High
land County to Washington Court Hous
4 in Fayette County. If so, it is hard.y lkel.
D that they failed to notice on the left, a fev
. miles south OF Washington C. H., a two
, story framer residence, square in build, will
> pillars and portico in front. The hous
faces the east and is quite prominen'
from the fact that it occupies a'knoll som'
fifty feet higher perhaps than the surround
ing country. which is comparatively level
The house not only occupies an elevated
position but, were you acquainted with
the inmates. you would bear witness with
me to the deserving character of the head
of the household and his estimable mate.
Both were ofEnglish blood, but strange as it
may seem, no southerner was ever more
hospitable to the stranger within their
gates" than this same couple. They seemed
to have adopted, without effort. the urban
ity OF the true southerner, together With the
happy faculty OF making a stranger feel en-
tliely at ease and. in fact, as ii he were an
old-time friend making a visit after a long
absence.
Persons who have had the pleasure OF
being entertained at the firesides of this
household will remember the gentleman as
a man nearing his sixtieth mile post. He
was spare in build, over average in height,
and with a forehead which seemed almost
as high as the portion of his face below the
eyes. He was deliberate in his walk and
yet decisive. There was a glance in his eve
that seemed at times to look ell tirely
through a person and read ever ones in
most and secret thoughts. Ifyou were so
fortunate as to pass the evening alone with
him you might sit in front of the open fire.
place and in conversation find him well
posted on affairs ofthe day and especially
on educational matters. The fire
would fairly gleam from his eyes as he
would speak against capita! punishment
and in favor OF reformatory measures and
the good result to the erring and crimi-
nal classes that could be effected by kind
ness and intelligence. Then his faith in the
wisdom OF Gods plans and the eventual
regeneration of mankind was truly inspir-
ing and one could not help but feel that he
vas essentially a a. very much in earnest
n whatever he advocated. His wife was a
zeal old fashioned home body, the very {
opposite to her husband in that she was ;
diffident in advancing her W views
IN any subject under discussion. She was
llways an eager listener to what her hus- =
'and bad to say and it a evident that I
lge had only served to deepen a regard that :
ach felt for the other. +
Inquiry developed the fact hat this :
ouple had come to this fertile portion of .
ne valley OF the Ohio almost Immediately v
tier their marriage. As a sutton for the
ady's hand the young man by his pro- r
ounced and uncompromising manner and n
had incurred the displeasure of til a
Dung lady's parental progenitor and lie q
ad objected to the marriage. Finding q
owever that his objections were of no n
vail, and that the young couple were de- .
to marry, he reluctantly gave his a
onsent that the marriage take place in his t
house, having in view, no doubt, the n
d OF anything that might be a re- C.
ectlon on the unblemished character of n
family name. With determination to +
low that ne was made Of the kind of ma q
rial that is needed in men that make
leir W way in the world, the young p
left the home Of his boyhood to make 4
home OF his W in the then wilds Of !,
merlca. His bride accompanied him. n
ere, IN this favored portion of the land of i
10 Tree, they had passed over forty years If
their married life, happy in the society II
each other and such few acquaintance as a
'came intimate with them. Here while a,
home was still new to them, and they RI
IN the language OF Longfellow: In
Each others own best company" Lin
son was born to them. It is of this m
n, peculiar i'll many respects, that l "
rte. His parents named him Herley, al
rsumably after one of Makensies chara- b;
"a man with a heart" Ipass overthe tt
riod of his boyhood and 10 where he is al
Hisparents, in the meantime, til
IN OF mind intensified by his bereave. NJ
ent and the usual reverses that a young er
q n meets in attaining snch an age, even in tn
quiet country district, determines him in es
the ministry as the field in which
can find the most c%ongeniaI employment pc
ID accomplish the most good. He attend ga
Oberlin College, graduated with honors to
d left with the highest enconimus aud tn
pressions Of confidence and esteem on ST
e part OF the professors OF the institu- he
IN. He returned to the home OF his boy bl
cd but things were not as congenialther ju
he wished and in time he secured a desi- co
BILE charge IN a growing place in Min re
sofa. Here, by the exemplary manner in m,
I'LL uO COuuuTIcu ulIlStu lie 6OOn IN. / w
himself, into the good graces of fol
. community. He was not easy to be- gi,
me acquainted with, but on the con- lik
Try, decidedly reserved and inclined toI
vote his entire time to study and the I'm
s~oretical part OF his work. Those who be
ew him best liked him best. Those un- wi
luainted thought him distant and unso- ag
|. Not that he was uncongenial. Hewas mt
a~santcompany when you touched a chord cal
bis mind that interested him but he was 7
, much in earnest to feel comfortable in no
'rying on the ordinary t%riffling CONVEX. is
ion OF the drawing DON He was not wa
at people call social, he was at his best a
there were but few in the room and act
'er entirely at ease where there was a a g
company. He often wished he were W.
lstituted otherwise and endeavored to nc
rcome what he was not slow to observe of
rked against him. But his attempts the
'e always painful to him and at last he the
down to the conviction that the she
ing OF exclusiveness that led his parents me
cave all their relations behind, and to find inn
)piness in the companionship of their own pa,
res before the fireplace OF the log cabinin mil
woods OF Ohio, was so born in him that Tn
would never be able to eradicate it. me
eople in the community where he lived co,
nired him and gladly welcomed him to out
ir homes but they seldom had the pleas ura
ofentertaining him. They knew not why felt
them but some few persons were she
Ell enough to think that he considered Yet
'self so much above them that he did str
feel like associating with them. 1t was bef
surprising that this should soon reach to
ears. 1t stung him to the quick for he tax
that the criticism was unju It. There are roe
es. no doubt, in the lives of every per dal
when they are not appreciated as they tina
lid like to be or as they may Justly feel far
deserve to be, but, the person who tax
performs t re work required tina
i'm in this world may console himself hin
4 the reflection that he deserves appre- ing
ion whether he receives it or not. not
,%nscious of his own integrity, of having He
c right as Goo had given him to see the eve
t, he cherished no feeling of animosity far
ard those who had spoken slightingly -
i'm and they were soon among his warm ha,
Spurred by the criticisms, he eac
more exclusive than ever. He T
ned determined that if his friends could mis-
admire him for his social qualities they lad,
nld not be able to say he was undeserv acc,
their esteem for his intellectual at tho
lments. His whole soul seemed wrapped ing
n the study Of the themes on which he !"
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